Tag: table

  • Colin Kaepernick

    Colin Kaepernick is a contentious figure in American football because of the protests he started against the US national anthem. While other protesting players remain on teams and play, Kaepernick remains unsigned despite what some say is a talent above other players. And as the American football season just began, this article from the Washington…

  • Clear the Cache

    Some of the aforementioned work that has been keeping me busy is the design of a new part of a website. And one of the most common things I hear when I ask why something is not displaying as I intended is “Have you cleared the cache?”. And that is why this Friday’s piece from…

  • Voting on Trump’s Cabinet

    Michael Flynn, the National Security Advisor, may have broken the law by talking to the Russian ambassador about Americans sanctions on Russia before Trump took office. One can imagine the furore surrounding the man and the post. However, the post is not confirmed by the Senate, but is appointed by the president. But how has the…

  • Thank Superman, It’s Finally Friday

    It’s been a long, exhausting week. Am I right? Well, thank Superman, it’s finally Friday. So today we have a post from xkcd about Superman. And birds and planes. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Three Months Out

    Three months ago today I moved out of Chicago and began making my way to Philadelphia. This post from xkcd seemed appropriate for the day. Credit for the piece goes to Randall Munroe.

  • Scoring Boston

    Apologies for the long layoff, but life threw me a curveball or two. But in that time I did manage to go out to Boston and catch some of Big Papi’s last regular season games with the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Whilst there, I caught an advert for Boston’s new City Score, which updates…

  • What Has Happened After Police Shootings

    Yesterday, I left the office late and encountered a protest in front of my building organised by the Black Lives Matter movement. The protest focused on recent shooting deaths of black men by police officers in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge, but the protests clearly tapped into deeper issues regarding race, inequality, and armed police among…

  • Where is Normal America?

    Not every graphic information graphic is a sexy chart or map. Sometimes tables communicate the story just as well. Maybe even better. Today’s post comes from FiveThirtyEight, which examined a claim about what places represent “Normal America”. Turns out that when one looks at the data, here age, race, ethnicity, and education, Normal America is…

  • Tracking Super Tuesday

    On Tuesday I tracked the results primarily with the New York Times and the Washington Post. I really enjoyed the Post’s coverage as they designed a homepage for the night’s results. The results were placed at the centre of the content, as you can see in the screenshot below. Below the map and table, content…

  • The Safe List

    Migrants and refugees continue to reach Europe. But some of those people can be sent back, depending upon their country of origin. The tricky part is that there is no common set of countries as this graphic from the Economist shows. In terms of design, we see nothing too elaborate here. This is really just…